Wisdom, Wit, Humor & Other Good Stuff for Men Over 50

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In 1974, a Cleveland resident wrote to the city’s National Football League team, the Browns, complaining about the menace posed by the fad of throwing paper airplanes, and implicitly threatened litigation.The Browns’ lawyer’s response is . . . well, a classic of its kind. The letter The reply read more

By IAN HAYSOM Chick-lit? What about Guy-lit? Must-reads for men. Men of a certain age, that is. Let’s, for the purposes of debate, define Guy-lit. Anything that isn’t Jane Austen (an expedition: go to the new British Library in London and see the permanent collection of manuscripts and musical scores. There on display is original... read more

By JOHN SWIFT Moving back to the land is a well-shared dream. We have many aspiring back-to-the-land types here at WisdomFishing.com. Some are horse people and you have to be a pretty positive personality to keep a horse. Others are students of the Under the Tuscan Sun school of literature. In these books, under relentlessly... read more

By JOHN SWIFT These things are amazing. They have certainly changed the way that I live and work. Having so much information at my fingertips always and everywhere and having the ability to find out more things on the fly is proving to be a fantastic facilitator. I like to think that one of the... read more

Have you ever wondered how a woman’s brain works? Well, it’s finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration. Every one of those little blue balls is a thought about something that needs to be done, a decision or a problem that needs to be solved. A man only has only two balls and they consume... read more

By JONATHAN YOUNG There are some things that get better as we age. On our best days, we have a kind of grace. We are works-in-progress and even in later life new qualities surface. Some aspects are coming along faster than others. Other features come and go. In general, we can see certain emerging attitudes... read more

Something about sex and this time of year just did not seem to work well together. Not in the mood? Unlikely – but this time of year seems to be a time of year to reflect on other things. So we have two features for you; little off topic, maybe, but we hope you’ll enjoy both.... read more

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By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends.

anonymous

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"

John Lennon

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Samuel Johnson

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

anonymous

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how not do it, and Virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

anonymous

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.